Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-03-26

Joseph Chamberlain, the radical member
Of the English parliament, who, his
friends claim, may vet be prime minister,
favors gradual income tax in Great
Britain. Prince Bismarck has given a
qualified assent to the theory that the
rich should give relatively more than
the poor to the support Of the state.
Starvation.
Walnut Valley Times.
have often been asked the question,
how did the rebels feed you while in
Andersonyille prisonr' I will explain
as near as / can the mode of distribut-
ing the food and the quality and quaint
ty of it.
Perhaps an hour after sunrise q waQ-
on would draw into the prison with two
or three barrels, which would very much
resemble slop barrels. Some Of them
would contain cooked peas, some meat
or molasses. The peas were sometimes
steaming hot, were of q brown color and
were inhabited with bugs, often contain
ng as many as four in one pea and they
were starved to death, for nothing re-
NAMED Of the pea but the shell. The
entrance did not seem large enough for
them to get again, and after recook-
ing these peas it would seem more like
"bug" soup than pea soup. At any rate
it tasted good then. A crowd of hun
cry, suffering humans would gather
around the wagon with jam. Now
this porridge is to be dealt out to ser
geants of one hundred men each, and
they divided it among four under SER
geants who divided to twenty-five men
each; and while it was being divided
among the first sereeants they would
often spill some of the peas on the sand.
The sand was about three or four in
ches deep and very loose, and these
starving men were gathered to pick up
what has dropped in it. 1t was sight
even then to see them down on ''all
fours' graphing in the sand for such
stuff as it was, and some of the poor fell.
lows had plenty of ''sand," as they
would often get into fight like hungry
wolves over those sand covered peas.
The first sergeant gets his buckets full
and goes off to one side and divides it
with his other four sergeants, and they
each go near where his twenty-five men
stay and they spread down an old cloth
or sack and all sit down OH the sand as
near as possible aud watch the process
of dividing, which is mostly done with a
spoon, perhaps wooden one. And this
must be done. very accurately, no one
getting more than another, or another
row would ensue on the spot. Next
comes the bread, which is corn bread, of
course. Sometimes it would be warm,
but most always cold and minus salt,
soda, lard or eggs, baked in large shallow
pans. This bread is first spaced off &C.
curately by dim marks until there are
twenty five pieces OF equal size. Each
piece would be small slice on our bread
plate at home. Then comes the meat, if
it comes at all. Each man would get
about two ounces of beef; if pork, not
more then one ounce.
In case no meat was served it was
molasses, and when divided each man
would get about one tablespoon full.
Sometimes it would be rice instead of
peas, but not often. But now each has
received all he will get for twenty four
hours! We have three or four spoons
full of peas or rice, one slice of bread,
one spoonful Of molasses or two ounces
of meat. This is breakfast, dinner and
supper all combined and each day the
same. I had an old quart can with
rail to it, and into that can put peas,
meat and bread and pint Of water and
all was cooked together, sometimes skim
mings off the bugs and wings of bugs
and loose legs, and then ate, often eat
ing it so hot as to scald my mouth till
the skin would peel, for we were hungry.
Dear reader, unless you were there or
at some other such place, you do not
know what hunger is. You often speak
of being hungry and never was hungry
in your life. Now I have put this feast,
or fast. which was of nine long months
duration to me, in the very best phase.
The worst has never been told, and 1
will not attempt to do it for 1 should
fail.
The Tenth Man To Cross Africa.
New York Sun.
DR.. LEM, who arrived at Zanzibar
last week from the interior of Africa, has
completed the tenth trip made by white
men across central Africa from sea to sea.
Less than year ago he was stleaming
mp the Congo on one Of the vessels of the
Congo state. His little party had been
sent to Africa to rescue Emin Bey and |
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